Hello America #4

Quote #1 Hello? " My heart beats so loud I can barely hear my own voice." Hello?" pg 165 said by Elli
This is important because it shows she is tired and scared at night. When someone calls her on the phone no one is there and she is scared. This is important because it shows us she is getting kind of scared in America. My connection is sometimes when I'm home alone and the phone rings and I pick it up sometimes nobody is there and I get scared of what happened. Then I kind of not like answer the phone after that until like someone comes home.
Question #1 Has anyone ever called your house and nobody was there and how did you feel after that happened?
Quote #2 " It's nothing short of a miracle!" pg 172 by Aunt Celia
This is a miracle to Elli's mom and aunt because they needed a new place to live because one they didn't have that much room and 2 they needed a better place then were they were living.
Then with a new house comes a new life for Elli and her mom. My connection is that when I moved to San Diego I met new people and came to a new school. Then it gave me a new life and a new place to explore.
Question #2 Have you ever moved to a new place and if you have tell me more about how it was when you came to that new place?

hello america #3

quote # 1 Their are Jewish day schools where Hebrew is taught in the morning. said by Bubi PG#125
this is going to have Elli go to school and then she is going to get a education. Then it can help Elli get a better job. i think this is a really good think for Elli to do because then she can get a education and get a job. With her choosing to go to school she might just be able to get her and her mom to be able to live in a better environment.my Question have you or your family had a hard time getting into school.
Quote#2 This number was put on my arm in Auschwitz by people like you. sayed by Elli pg # 146 This is important because it does show that she still remembers this and she can't forget what happened in Germany. i think that she really proved a point to that women say you aren't Jewish but you are German because this woman doesn't know what Jews went thought in Germany. My personal connection is that a long time ago i was brothered by what that person said and i yelled back to like Elli but i wasn't as angry. My question is that have anyone ever been really offended by what someone said about you?

blog #2 hello america

Where did you leave your shopping cart, on the street, what did you except, what did i except. pg#46 shop manager this is important to Elli's life because it makes shows them what to look out for in America. then Elli and her mom can't do what they did in Europe. then it rates to the question above because it shows their already starting a hard life in America. this connects to me because i have had something stolen from my once. Then i have had to change what i did. My question is that has anything ever been stolen from you and if you have what is it.
They are finding out that in the new world or America that not everyone is that nice.
i have no room to move... no room to breathe... no air in this wagon. this is important because this is how Ellis life is going to be for years and it might not get beater until they have their own wagon. Then this is how it's going to be no matter where they are. My connection with this is that every time i go camping i have to be with other people and my gear and it is hard to move. My question is have you ever been stuck in a car/wagon and not been able to move.

field trip reflection

Part#1 The purpose of the first museum was to learn about the Jews that came to America over 350 years ago and how they were treated how many were their and saying they couldn't do anything because they were Jewish. One thing I found interesting is that Jews couldn't go into office because they had to be sworn in over the Christian bible. Then in 1825 they made a bill called the Jew Bill so Jews could go into office.

Part#2 1The photo I choose was Chinatown and what I saw was two little girls and a men with a sword and a man with a food cart. This was interesting because it just popped into my head and it was hard for me to forget it.
2 My quote is how some immigrants come to Chicago and they are looking around and they stop on the freeway to look at the sky and where they live.
3 The essay I choose was about a Mexican girl that came to America in search of a new life and she's saying how shes going to try her best to keep America a good place and try to make her life well.

blog #1 hello america

What was the journey like coming to America for Elli?
Quote: "God almighty, you've got it bad! Poor devil, right at the start." Quote by captain McGregor, pg #10.
will I ever see u again. pg#16 elli
Elli's journey to America was diffcult becuse she was seasick the entire time on the boat and it never stopped for her. Elli had to stay in a special room where she wasn't seasick as much.
Even though Elli was seasick most of the trip, she was still able to walk around the boat looking at new scenes she hadn't seen before.
I have gone on boats my whole life since my family owns a large boat for fishing. I have never gotten seasick but I have seen a lot of scenes that Elli has experienced. One thing that we have in common is that we have both been on a boat for long periods of time.
question for my group: Have you ever gotten seasick on a boat before like Elli?
question for my group: do u think Elli is going to see him again

Killer Angels

The book Killer Angels, it’s a good book for people who like wars or would like to know more about the Civil War. The Civil War was on the east coast of the United States on June 29th 1863 thru June 1914. This book sets the historical time line of the events that took place during the war. The Killer Angels author Michael Shaara won the Pulitzer Prize for his realistic historical novel.
If you would like to learn about the Civil War, you would want to read this book because of its realistic descriptions of the events that took place during the war. If you thought you knew everything about the civil war, you would learn a great deal more about the details and actual events and individuals who made these decisions during this war. This was and still is a major historical event in our history.
We learned a great deal on how and what was required to fight a war of this caliber. I feel this book is a required or must read for anyone who wants to know about the military. I do not recommend reading this book if you don’t know much about the military, because there are words that you won’t understand.
One of the main characters General Longstreet was the biggest General for the Confederate Army, and Chainberlin was general for the Union Army. You will learn about both sides of the civil war, because the author Michael Shaata writes about each side in separate chapters as the events occur. There are battles throughout the book, which is one of the reasons this book is so entertaining. The book starts out with a spy tiring to get though a picket line trying to tell his army,”that their were 10,000 army units moving.” Then further in the book it discusses the battle at Gettysburg.
I feel everyone should read this book, because it really gives a person a better perspective about our county beginning.. This is a good book to read if you would want to know about the civil war.

ch 13

Chapter 13 Going Home

The boys march onto the cruiser from the rowboat. They are feeling excited and happy to finally be off the island and having something to look forward to. A marine is in front of the boys and says,

“I’ll give you a tour of the ship.” The group follows the marine around the ship exploring each area including the engine room, the bridge, the bow, the stern, and their quarters. After hearing a loud bang, Wilfred jumps on the bed and instantly falls fast asleep. Jack, Roger and Robert raided the kitchen’s food and fill their stomachs with stale chicken. As the group is sleeping, eating and exploring a loud alarm goes off, saying General Quarters. Many marines are running through the vessel going top side. Jack, Ralph and Percival follow them up to the deck and spot a fighter plane coming straight down in their direction. Someone yells, “Komakaze!” The boys run to the side of the ship to take cover. When the plane hits the middle of the vessel, Ralph, Jack and Percival go flying over the edge and they find some debris to hang on while the boat is sinking in front of them.

After several hours of floating in the warm, shark infested water, they watch each lifeless bodies of the marines and sailors go under the waves as the sharks disappear. In the distance, a large gray object appears to be sailing towards them and the boys are happy that they will finally be out of the water alive. When the carrier starts to pick them up and they get on board they can’t believe that it is a Japanese carrier. They are reunited with most of the other boys that survived the wreckage. Now, they are put in a jail cell as their prisoners.

“What luck!” Maurice says. I can’t believe we were rescued and now we are taken captive again. Roger is playing his harmonica, Sam and Eric are playing rock, paper, scissors and Ralph is using his metal mug scraping it across the bars. After having mush for breakfast, lunch and dinner, the group is feeling sad and depressed. They wished they were back on the island free to roam and wander. Each boy was taken one at a time to be questioned about the American cruiser and why they were on it. Each

one boy tells the same story about how they were rescued. When one of the Japanese sailors comes in and yells something, the other sailor replies back in Japanese. Next, the Japanese sailors direct them to the top side where they are given a plane with no pilot. The boys all get in and they argue about who will fly the plane.

Wilfred says, “Jack should fly the plane because he is the biggest.” Ralph disagrees and says.”I should fly the plane because my dad is in the Navy and he taught me how to fly.” The boys choose Ralph to be the pilot and Jack to be the co-pilot. When they have taken off, they fly east toward America. They are cheering and thrilled that they are still alive. The plane continues for several hours into the night. They see lights below and they decide to fly lower towards the light. They discover it is a U.S carrier and they try to land.

Ralph says, “I only failed on the landing.” So Jack took over and had trouble landing and ran into the tower on the boat. The plane survived the landing barely and the group got off quickly and were all shaken up. Ralph was looking around and found out that his dad was in charge of this boat.

Ralph stayed with his dad all night talking about what happened on the island, when the morning came they couldn’t find Roger and they was a missing lifeboat and they discovered that Ralph’s father kicked him off the ship with a lifeboat. Jack gets a helicopter off the boat and goes to his mom. Maurice decides to be a sailor and ends up dead in the next battle. Robert decides to be a stowaway off an American ship until he gets back to London his home country. Sam and Eric decide to be movie stars in the movie, The Twins Strike Back. Ralph continues to live a good life with his mom and dad. Wilfred and Percival both die of homework disease. Piggy and Simon work for Davy Jones and life a good live pirating Roger.